Here's a photo of my poor burdened Butternut Squash. This guy has been through a lot as I've learned a bit more about how to take care of this type of plant. I had to do three major things to improve his quality of life:
-Drop the HID lighting from 600 watts to 400 watts
-Reduce the nitrogen level in the nutrient solution
-Run very frequent watering cycles (15 minutes on/15 minutes off)
All of these changes have this guy on the road to recovery but right now he has a lot of crispy leaves that need to be removed as soon as some healthy new growth appears. You can see several squashes on the plant but this is the second time it has tried to set fruit. The entire first round of fruits died on the vine. Hopefully we have better luck with this next round.
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